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3 Sep 2017, 7:21 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
Readers may be interested in several companion compilations: on Hinduism, on Indian (or Indic) Philosophy, and on Buddhism. [read post]
7 Feb 2019, 6:00 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
Bibliographies with some family resemblance to the above list (in this instance, more or less ‘non-Western’ or non-Eurocentric religious and philosophical traditions and worldviews): Buddhism Classical Chinese Worldviews Indic/Philosophy The Jain Tradition Sufism (a mystical Islamic tradition) Theology and Philosophy in Islamic Traditions Please note: I do not consider the Islamic worldview to be ‘non-Western,’ but have included it here for several reasons, including… [read post]
5 Jul 2022, 6:17 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
This list covers philosophically oriented Buddhist titles from within Buddhism, as well as works by those who bring modern philosophical arguments and methods of analysis (and phenomenology, hermeneutics, etc.) to their examination of Buddhist philosophy, occasionally comparing it to other philosophical worldviews (hence those writing first and foremost as Buddhists on the one hand, and those identifying as professional philosophers or using contemporary philosophy to study Buddhist… [read post]
31 Aug 2020, 9:27 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
I’ve also included a separate list of my writing (published and unpublished, although not all of the former is found here) on a variety of topics as well as the “study guides” for several religious worldviews (Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Daoism, and Confucianism) I used to give to my students at Santa Barbara City College (there is not a ‘study guide’ for Buddhism, because I used to provide a chapter from a book introducing fundamental Buddhist… [read post]
16 Jul 2018, 6:23 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
The following bibliographies contain titles indirectly germane to our topic: (i) Beyond Capitalist-Attenuated Time: Freedom, Leisure, and Self-Realization; (ii) Biological Psychiatry, Sullied Psychology and Pharmaceutical Reason; (iii) Buddhism and Psychoanalysis; (iv) Emotions; (v) Freudian Psychology; (vi) Health: Law, Ethics & Social Justice;... [read post]
19 Jan 2018, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
  The principal is Christian, but parents complained to the school board falsely claiming that the she was a Buddhist and was attempting to indoctrinate their children with Buddhism. [read post]
21 May 2018, 5:15 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
” At a future date I would like to discuss to what extent the “categories of problems” for which people seek psychoanalytic therapy amount to reasons that are the same as, different from, or overlap with, the reasons for which people may become intellectually and emotionally interested in, or spiritually and philosophically attracted, to Buddhism. [read post]
6 Oct 2014, 5:00 am by Steve Shiffrin
If it did, Buddhism as ordinarily understood would not count as a religion. [read post]
22 Jul 2017, 5:07 pm
Much as some Westerners have embraced Eastern practices like Buddhism, young Chinese are gravitating toward Western astrology because they say it is new and exotic. [read post]
20 Apr 2017, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
The paper recounts:Cole, who says she is a Christian, says school leaders and ultimately the school board buckled under pressure from parents who held a prayer rally at Bullard “for Jesus to rid the school of Buddhism. [read post]
16 Jan 2021, 9:35 pm by Patrick S. O'Donnell
It appears the great English psychoanalyst Wilfrid Bion (8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) had Yogic- and Buddhist-like sensibilities with regard to mental states or, in the Buddhist case, states of consciousness, specifically the role of saṃskāras (which, among other causes, produces memory) and kāma,* or more broadly, at least in Buddhism, tṛṣṇā.** “Bion said that to be without memory or desire is the mental state which prepares the… [read post]
14 May 2018, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
” He believes Islam, Mormonism, Hinduism, and Buddhism are all cults, and that Catholicism represents the “genius of Satan. [read post]
6 Nov 2015, 4:05 am by Howard Friedman
Meanwhile the State Duma is moving to rush through a bill proposed by President Putin that would prevent the any portions of the  holy scriptures of Russia's four established religions-- Christianity's Bible, Judaism's Tanach, Islam's Qur'an and Buddhism's Kangyur-- from being included on Russia's Federal List of Extremist Materials,. [read post]
2 Aug 2019, 4:00 am by Howard Friedman
Ambassador and two others, charging that a picture posted on Facebook defamed Buddhism. [read post]
4 Oct 2023, 4:17 am
"From "The 8-Year-Old Boy at the Heart of a Fight Over Tibetan Buddhism/He may have to defend the faith in Mongolia against pressure from China’s ruling Communist Party" (NYT).The boy, a third-grader with a fondness for TikTok and video games, now faces decades of theological training, a lifetime of celibacy, and the grave responsibility of having to defend Mongolian Buddhism against Chinese pressure.... [read post]
8 Feb 2011, 6:03 am by Howard Friedman
Today's New York Times carries a front-page article on the government of India's complicated  relations with Ogyen Trinley Dorje, the third ranking lama of Tibetan Buddhism. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 6:40 am
The conference is aimed primarily at bringing Muslims, Christians and Jews closer together, but representatives of several Eastern religions, including Buddhism and Hinduism, also attended. [read post]
17 Jul 2008, 6:40 am
The conference is aimed primarily at bringing Muslims, Christians and Jews closer together, but representatives of several Eastern religions, including Buddhism and Hinduism, also attended. [read post]
22 Oct 2008, 7:53 pm
California employees observe many different religions including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and many others. [read post]
23 Jul 2009, 12:05 am
Erik Curren, who began practicing Buddhism over a decade ago, is the Democratic candidate for the 2oth District seat in Virginia's House of Delegates. [read post]